---
title: Basic Marks
description: Set of essential text formatting options.
docs:
  - route: /docs/components/mark-toolbar-button
    title: Mark Toolbar Button
---

<ComponentPreview name="playground-demo" id="basicnodes" />

<PackageInfo>

## Features

- Includes commonly used text styling features: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, subscript, superscript, and code.

</PackageInfo>

**Plugins:**

- `BoldPlugin` for `bold` mark
- `ItalicPlugin` for `italic` mark
- `UnderlinePlugin` for `underline` mark
- `StrikethroughPlugin` for `strikethrough` mark
- `SubscriptPlugin` for `subscript` mark
- `SuperscriptPlugin` for `superscript` mark
- `CodePlugin` for `code` mark

## Installation

```bash
npm install @udecode/plate-basic-marks
```

## Usage

```tsx
import { BasicMarksPlugin } from '@udecode/plate-basic-marks/react';

const plugins = [
  // ...otherPlugins,
  BasicMarksPlugin,
];
```

## Keyboard Shortcuts

<KeyTable>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + B">
    Toggle the bold formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + I">
    Toggle the italic formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + U">
    Toggle the underline formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + E">
    Toggle the code formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + Shift + X">
    Toggle the strikethrough formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + ,">
    Toggle the subscript formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
  <KeyTableItem hotkey="Cmd + .">
    Toggle the superscript formatting for the selected text.
  </KeyTableItem>
</KeyTable>

## Plugins

### BasicMarksPlugin

### BoldPlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### CodePlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### ItalicPlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### UnderlinePlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### StrikethroughPlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### SubscriptPlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>

### SuperscriptPlugin

<APIOptions>
<APIItem name="clear" type="string | string[]" optional>
Node properties to delete.

</APIItem>
</APIOptions>